Teaching as Inquiry Reflective Questions








Focusing Inquiry

Collect baseline data. Write initial plan. What am I going to do? Develop? Strengthen? Why?



Why am I focusing on this?



What level are my students presently at? How do I know?



What barriers to learning need to be overcome? What resources will I need?



What is my time frame?







Teaching Inquiry

What is my plan for doing this? What strategies will I try? How will I change my practice?



What new teaching strategies & tools will I use?



What are the key steps for implementing my inquiry in the classroom?



What methods & ICTs will I use to track & record student change/achievement and how often?







Learning Inquiry

Put my plan into action. Monitor; collect evidence; write regular dated reflections; interpret data. Plan next steps



How am I infusing my ideas into classroom practice?



What am I learning from monitoring student outcomes?



What are the next steps I need to take? (Research, resources, activities)







Summarising




Reflect on progress, observations: current versus initial data. How did it go? What strategies have made a difference to my students' learning? How do I know?
Analyse data and observations and draw conclusions. Prepare and present findings to colleagues.



What methods will I use to collect ‘end’ data?



What conclusions can I draw from data analysis?



What are my main points?



Specifically how will I share my Inquiry with my colleagues?